rational
Issue #76
8 September, 2019 // View full list
Evidence across meta-analyses on key mental disorders provides a picture of limited benefits for psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. // www.cambridge.org
# Instrumental
The Value of Your Time, or Why You Should Buy an AC // lynettebye, 7 min
[Hammertime Final Exam] Quantum Walk, Oracles and Sunk Meaning // silentbob, 6 min
# Epistemic
Specificity: Your Brain's Superpower // Liron, 1 min Favorite
The Power to Judge Startup Ideas // Liron, 9 min
The Power to Demolish Arguments // Liron, 12 min
How Specificity Works // Liron, 8 min
Seven habits towards highly effective minds // ricraz, 2 min
# Ai
Utility ≠ Reward // vlad_m, 14 min
AI Safety "Success Stories" // Wei_Dai, 4 min
Concrete experiments in inner alignment // evhub, 6 min
How to write good AI forecasting questions + Question Database (Forecasting infrastructure, part 3) // jacobjacob, bgold, 5 min
Are minimal circuits deceptive? // evhub, 9 min
# Anthropic
Russian x-risks newsletter, summer 2019 // avturchin, 4 min
What are the biggest "moonshots" currently in progress? // Liron, 1 min
The Transparent Society: A radical transformation that we should probably undergo // MakoYass, 9 min
Are we living at the most influential time in history? // jp, 1 min
# Decision theory
What’s So Bad About Concentration? // Robin Hanson, 3 min
# Math and cs
Probability as Minimal Map // johnswentworth, 7 min
Joy in Discovery: Galois theory // Eigil Rischel, 2 min
How to Throw Away Information // johnswentworth, 6 min
Caching on Success // conjectures, 2 min
# Books
Book Review: Ages Of Discord // Scott Alexander, 25 min
List Of Passages I Highlighted In My Copy Of Ages Of Discord // Scott Alexander, 5 min
# Community
Bay Area Winter Solstice Volunteering // Chelsea Voss, 1 min
AIXSU - AI and X-risk Strategy Unconference // David_Kristoffersson, 1 min
SSC Meetups Everywhere: Community Map is pinned to the frontpage for September // habryka, 1 min
SSC Paris meetup // fbreton, 1 min
Kansas City SSC meetup // Bae's Theorem, 1 min
# Culture war
10% Less Democracy // Robin Hanson, 5 min
# Fun
Who To Root For: 2019 College Football Edition // Zvi, 53 min
# Misc
Tiddlywiki for organizing notes and research // eukaryote, 4 min
Running Effective Structured Forecasting Sessions // bgold, jacobjacob, 3 min
Age gaps and Birth order: Reanalysis // Bucky, 10 min
Arguing Absolute Velocities // Closed Limelike Curves, 7 min
Living the Berkeley idealism // Yuxi_Liu, 1 min
# Podcasts
Stories About Academia // Ben Pace, 23 min Favorite
Stories About Education // Ben Pace, 16 min
Political Violence and Distraction Theories // Ben Pace, 42 min
#63 - Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, blockchain's failures, & effective giving // The 80000 Hours team, 198 min
Rationally Speaking #239 - Saloni Dattani on "The debate over whether male and female brains are different" // NYC Skeptics, 48 min